US5576050A - Method of curing a film - Google Patents

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US5576050A
US5576050A US08/512,748 US51274895A US5576050A US 5576050 A US5576050 A US 5576050A US 51274895 A US51274895 A US 51274895A US 5576050 A US5576050 A US 5576050A
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Johannes A. G. P. Damsteegt
Johannes M. A. A. Compen
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    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J9/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture, installation, removal, maintenance of electric discharge tubes, discharge lamps, or parts thereof; Recovery of material from discharge tubes or lamps
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  • Cathode ray tubes are used in, inter alia, television receivers, computer monitors and oscilloscopes.
  • An object of the invention is to provide a method of the type mentioned in the opening paragraph, which is more suitable for "in-line” application.
  • the method in accordance with the invention is characterized in that the film is cured by a hot gas flow which is blown onto a limited surface area of the film and which "scans" the surface.
  • the film is provided on the outside of a part of an evacuated cathode ray tube, for example the outside of the display window of an evacuated display tube or the outside of the cone of an evacuated display tube.
  • an evacuated display tube cannot be subjected to very high temperatures for a prolonged period of time.
  • the temperature of the display tube and hence the temperature of the furnace must not exceed temperatures in the range from 100° C. to 200° C. At higher temperatures there is a substantial risk of breakage of the evacuated display tube.
  • the temperature in the part of the film which is subjected to the gas flow amounts to several hundred degrees Celsius.
  • the temperature of the display window or the cone is much lower.
  • the last-mentioned advantage is also important for, in particular, display tubes having a display window with a diagonal in excess of 50 cm. The larger the tubes, the longer it takes to heat the tubes in a furnace to the desired temperature, and the risk of breakage increases.
  • An embodiment of the method in accordance with the invention is characterized in that the surface is substantially rectangular and in that the gas flow covers a strip-shaped area extending over the surface in a first direction, said gas flow being moved over the surface in a direction transversely to said first direction.
  • This embodiment can for example be used to provide a film on the inner or outer surface of a display window.
  • the device in accordance with the invention is characterized in that it comprises means for blowing an air flow having a temperature in excess of 500° C. onto a specific area of the surface of the display window, as well as means for scanning the surface with the air flow.
  • FIG. 1 shows a cathode ray tube
  • FIG. 2 shows the device in accordance with the invention and the method of the invention.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show further embodiments of the method and the device in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a cathode ray tube, in this example a color cathode ray tube, having an evacuated envelope 1 which comprises a substantially rectangular display window 2, an enveloping portion 3 and a neck 4. In the neck them is provided an electrode system 5 for generating, in this case, three electron beams 6, 7 and 8.
  • the electron beams are generated in one plane (the plane of the drawing) and are directed to an electroluminescent display screen 9 which is provided on the inside of the display window and which comprises a phosphor pattern consisting of a large number of phosphor elements luminescing in red, green and blue.
  • the phosphor elements may be in the form of, for example, dots or lines.
  • the electron beams 6, 7 and 8 are deflected across the display screen 9 by means of a deflection unit 10 and pass through a color selection electrode 11 which is arranged in front of the display screen 9 and which comprises a thin plate with apertures 12.
  • the three electron beams 6, 7 and 8 pass through the apertures 12 of the color selection electrode 11 at a small angle and, consequently, each electron beam impinges on phosphor elements of only one color.
  • the color selection electrode 11 is suspended in front of the display screen by means of suspension means 13.
  • a surface of the display window, in this example the outer surface 16, is provided with a film.
  • a film can be used as an anti-reflection film or as an antistatic film.
  • such a film is provided in the liquid condition, after which the film is dried and subsequently cured. Customarily, the film is cured in a furnace. As described above, such a method is less suitable for mass production because the process step in which the film is cured is generally unsuitable for "in-line" application.
  • the film is provided on a display tube which has already been evacuated, there is a substantial risk of breakage of the display tube. It is an object of the invention to provide a method in which the above drawbacks are reduced.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the method.
  • the display window 2 of an, in this example, evacuated display tube 1 is provided with a dried film 17 on the outer surface 16.
  • a blowing device 20 is provided at some distance from the outer surface.
  • Said blowing device comprises, in this example, means 21 for heating air to a temperature above 500° C.
  • Said air is led to the nozzle 22.
  • Said nozzle 22 of the blowing device 20 is arranged at some distance (for example 0.5 to 5 cm) from the film.
  • the nozzle is moved relative to the outer surface, so that the film is scanned by the gas flow.
  • the temperature of the air ranges of from 700° to 1000° C.
  • the heat supply to the film is very large per unit mass of film, so that the temperature of the film increases in a short period of time (within a few seconds) to high values (several hundred degrees Celsius), causing the film to be cured; however, the heat supply to the display window, per unit mass of display window, is small, so that only a few, if any, thermal stresses occur in the display window.
  • FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of the method and the device in accordance with the invention.
  • the nozzle 32 has a slit-shaped aperture extending in the x-direction.
  • the nozzle 32 is moved over the surface in the y-direction or the surface is moved in the y-direction with respect to the nozzle.
  • a movement in only one direction is necessary. This simplifies and accelerates the process and simplifies the device.
  • the film is more homogeneously cured.
  • the slit-shaped aperture is a straight slit.
  • the shape of the nozzle is adapted to the surface of, in this example, the display window which is not fiat, i.e. the slit-shaped aperture approximately follows the curvature of the display window.
  • the distance between the slit-shaped aperture and the display window substantially does not vary along the aperture. This reduces temperature differences in the film during the curing process, resulting in a more homogeneously cured film.
  • the movement in the y-direction is carried out in a fiat plane in the z-direction.
  • the device comprises means for keeping the distance between the nozzle and the surface at least substantially equal during the movement in the y-direction. This reduces the temperature differences in the film during the curing process and leads to a more homogeneous film. In the embodiment shown, an upward and downward movement in the z-direction is carried out during the movement in the y-direction.
  • the method in accordance with the invention enables, for example, an anti-reflection layer to be provided on the inner surface or outer surface of the display window.
  • an anti-reflection layer for example, a Tetra Ethyl Orthosilicate (TEOS) or Tetra Ethyl Ortho Titanate (TEOTI) solution in an alcohol is sprayed on the surface, dried and cured in accordance with the inventive method.
  • the resulting film is an SiO 2 or TiO 2 film.
  • a mixture is prepared from 20.6 gr of TEOTI, 85.8 gr of ethanol and 6.5 gr of HCL (6M). After half an hour this mixture is diluted with 113.4 ml of 1-butanol and 406.7 ml of butanol/ethanol in a ratio of 1:1. The solution thus formed is provided on the outer surface of a display window and, after drying, cured in accordance with the method of the invention.
  • the two above-mentioned examples relate to the application of anti-reflection films on the surface.
  • the invention is not limited thereto.
  • other films such as films comprising conductive particles, for example antistatic or light-absorbing films, can be cured in accordance with the inventive method.
  • the invention can advantageously be used, in particular, for evacuated cathode ray tubes having a dimension of the display window, measured along its diagonal, in excess of 50 cm.
  • the disadvantages of the known method increase as the dimensions of the tubes increase; such large tubes necessitate larger furnaces, more time to cure and the risk of breakage increases.
  • a film can be provided on the cone. It is also possible to use more than one nozzle, for example a row of nozzles.
  • the method is carried out, for example, in such a manner that in addition to the hot gas flow a second gas flow of a lower temperature is blown onto the surface. In this manner, the increase in temperature of the part on which the film is provided, for example the display window, can be limited. The second gas flow causes the temperature to decrease.

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  • Manufacture Of Electron Tubes, Discharge Lamp Vessels, Lead-In Wires, And The Like (AREA)
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